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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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at rise in the back-ground. A couple of hourssail, however, brings us to a pointat which we can observe much more closely the still largerDavidson Glacier, on the opposite shore. But even here wedo not go ashore, for the far-famed Muir Glacier, which weshall reach within the next twenty-four hours, has the advan-tage of being as much more easily accessible than its sisterglaciers as it exceeds them in magnitude, beauty and generalinterest. How unimpressionable soever the tourist may be, a mysterioussense of awe is almost sure to take possession of him when thesteamer is exploring the two inlets of Chilkat and Chilkoot, inwhich the Lynn Canal terminates. Not, perhaps, until vegeta-tion has almost entirely disappeared, will he have noticed itsincreasing scantiness, but it will not be long before he realizesthe fact that in the forbidding mountains, the bare rocks andthe nineteen great ice cataracts that here discharge themselvesinto the sea, he sees a picture more closely resembling the
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430 The Northern Pacific Railroad, scenes of the now not distant Arctic world than, probably, hewill ever again have an opportunity of gazing upon. The natives of this region are that famous tribe, the Chilkats,whose dexterously woven dancing blankets are so much soughtafter by all visitors to Alaska who desire to take home withthem the finest examples of Alaskan handiwork, regaidless ofcost. They are made from the wool of the white mountaingoat, out of whose black horns are carved the spoons andladles already referred to. The white wool is hung from anupright frame, and into it nimble fingers weave, by means ofivory shuttles, curious and beautiful patterns from yarn dyedwith a variety of brilliant colors. We have now to retrace our course some sixty-five miles toPoint Retreat, where, instead of taking the easterly channeland returning to Juneau,we continue almost directly southwardto the point at which the waters of Lynn Canal mingle withthose of Icy Strait. Here, our good ships cour

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